Effect of biologically active substances derived from hydrobionts of the Pacific Ocean on parameters of lipid metabolism during experimental hypercholesterolemia

Bull Exp Biol Med. 2014 Dec;158(2):188-91. doi: 10.1007/s10517-014-2719-2. Epub 2014 Nov 29.

Abstract

We studied the effect of biologically active substances derived from hydrobionts, namely maristim (natural product from sea urchin roe) and fucolam (polysaccharides of fucoidan and calcium alginate from brown algae) on blood biochemistry in the mouse model of nutritional hypercholesterolemia. Maristim and fucolam are found to be capable to normalize the levels of the major indicators of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism and aminotransferase enzyme activity in terms of atherogenic load. Correction action of biologically active substances is more expressed in combined application. Identified experimentally normalizing effects of maristim and on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism allow us to recommend the further study in clinical trials of these biologically active substances and based on them additives.

MeSH terms

  • Alginates / pharmacology
  • Animals
  • Biological Products / pharmacology*
  • Blood Chemical Analysis
  • Carbohydrate Metabolism / drug effects*
  • Carbohydrate Metabolism / physiology
  • Complex Mixtures / pharmacology*
  • Diet, Atherogenic
  • Glucuronic Acid / pharmacology
  • Hexuronic Acids / pharmacology
  • Hypercholesterolemia / etiology
  • Hypercholesterolemia / metabolism*
  • Lipid Metabolism / drug effects*
  • Lipid Metabolism / physiology
  • Mice
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Phaeophyceae / chemistry
  • Polysaccharides / pharmacology*
  • Sea Urchins / chemistry
  • Transaminases / metabolism

Substances

  • Alginates
  • Biological Products
  • Complex Mixtures
  • Hexuronic Acids
  • Polysaccharides
  • Glucuronic Acid
  • fucoidan
  • Transaminases